Sources tell The Post that Disney execs have been quietly offering its more than 40,000-square-foot flagship store at 711 Fifth Ave., at 55th Street, directly to other retailers – even while denying it to the brokerage community.

“It is a prime space and a phenomenal corner flagship location,” said Farley Clark, a retail specialist with Lansco.

But with ground floor retail rents on Fifth Avenue tallying up at $600 a foot, Clark says the multi-level store will need to be taken out by a retailer with deep pockets. The total rent would come out less per foot as it would be blended with lower rent for the upper floors and basement.

“It would have to be someone with a strong signature that can afford that kind of rent, particularly with the economy showing signs of a slowdown and [the same slowdown being felt] in the apparel industry,” said Clark.

Disney announced last fall it would “rightsize” by closing 100 of its 700 stores worldwide but at the same time is rolling out a makeover for its remaining stores.

In New York, the company has already closed the 34th Street location, which is becoming an Ann Taylor Loft.

But it does expect to reopen a large outlet in Times Square next to its New Amsterdam Theater. Disney vacated the site and moved temporarily down the block to make room for the construction of the new Ernst & Young headquarters at 5 Times Square. Discussions on that lease are still ongoing, both the developer, Boston Properties, and a Disney spokesperson confirmed.

The Disney spokesperson, Sondra Haley insisted, however, that the company that Walt built was committed to its Fifth Avenue store: “We are not closing.”